Document on Normalization

CET CELL will be conducting examinations on multiple shifts for MBA & MCA
CET’s. The candidates will be given different sets of questions in every shift and it is
quite possible that in spite of all efforts of maintaining equivalence among various
question papers, the difficultylevel of these question papers administered in different
shifts may not be exactly the same. In order to overcome such a situation,
Normalization Method will be used for ensuring that candidates are neither
benefitted nor disadvantaged due to the difficultylevel of the examination.
The process of Normalization is an established practice for comparing
candidate scores across multi shift papers and is similar to those being adopted in
other large educational selection tests conducted in India.

Percentile Scores: Percentile scores are scores based on the relative performance of
all those who appear for the examination. Basically, the marks obtained are
transformed into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees.
The Percentile Score indicates the percentage of candidates that have scored
EQUAL TO OR BELOW (same or lower raw scores) that particular Percentile in that
examination. Therefore the topper (highest score) of each session will get the same
Percentile of 100 which is desirable. The marks obtained in between the highest and
lowest scores are also converted to appropriate Percentiles.

The Percentile Scores will be calculated up to 7 decimal places to avoid bunching

effect and reduce ties.

The Percentile score of a Candidate is calculated as follows:

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 Note: The Percentile of the Total shall NOT be an aggregate or average of the
Percentile of individual subject. Percentile score is not the same as percentage of
marks obtained.
Example: Suppose a test was held in 4 sessions of examinees as per details given below: -
(Allocation of Days and shifts were done randomly)

(a) Distribution of candidates were as follows:

Session-1: Day-1 Batch 1-1, Session-2: Day-1 batch-2, Session-3: Day-2 Batch-1 and
Session- 4: Day-2 Batch-2

No. of Candidates Marks

Session Day/Batch Absent Present Total Highest Lowest

1 D1 B1 150 2249 2399 154 1

2 D1 B2 186 2272 2458 157 0

3 D2 B1 215 2216 2431 149 0

4 D2 B2 166 2257 2423 161 0

In this method of scoring, the HIGHEST RAW SCORE in each paper (irrespective of the
raw scores) will be the 100 Percentile indicating that 100% of candidates have scores
equal to or lesser than the highest scorer/ topper for that session.

Highest Raw Score and Percentile Score: All the highest raw scores will have normalized
Percentile Score of 100 for their respective session.

Total Candidates who scored

Highest
Session candidates EQUAL OR LESS THAN Percentile Score Remarks
Raw Score
appeared Highest Raw Score

100.0000000
1 2249 154 2249
[(2249/2249)*100]
i.e. all the highest raw
100.0000000 scores would be
2 2272 157 2272
[(2272/2272)*100] normalized to 100
100.0000000 Percentile Score for
3 2216 149 2216 their respective
[(2216/2216)*100]
session.
100.0000000
4 2257 161 2257
[(2257/2257)*100]

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 STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE FOR NORMALIZATION AND PREPARATION OF
PERCENTILE SCORE:

Step-1: Distribution of Examinees in two days and in two shifts per day Candidates
would be distributed into four sessions randomly so that each session has
approximately equal number of candidates. These four sessions would be as follows:

Session-1: Day-1 Batch 1-1, Session-2: Day-1 batch-2, Session-3: Day-2 Batch-1 and
Session- 4: Day-2 Batch-2

In the event of more number of days or more number of shifts, the candidates will be divided
accordingly.

This will ensure that there is no bias in the distribution of candidates who shall take the
examination. Further, with a large population of examinees spread over the entire country the
possibility of such bias becomes remote.

Step-2: Preparation of Results for each Session: The examination results for each session
would be prepared in the form of Raw Scores

Total Percentile (TP) = 100 X

Step-3: Compilation of Total CET score:

The Percentile scores for the Total Raw Score for all the four sessions (Session-
1: Day-1 Batch 1-1, Session-2: Day-1 batch-2, Session-3: Day-2 Batch-1 and Session- 4: Day-2
Batch-2) as calculated in Step-2 above would be merged and shall be called the CET
scores which will then be used for compilation of result.
The Percentile of all four sessions will be calculated separately for the Total raw score

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Merge the Percentile Scores calculated above of all four sessions for the Total Percentile for preparation of CET scores
Roll Number Raw Score Percentile

D1 B1-01 154 100.0000000

D1 B1-02 154 100.0000000

D1 B2-01 157 100.0000000

D1 B2-02 157 100.0000000

D1 B2-03 157 100.0000000

D2 B1-01 149 100.0000000

D2 B1-02 149 100.0000000

D2 B2-01 161 100.0000000

D2 B2-02 161 100.0000000

D1 B1-03 153 99.9119718

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D2 B2-2253 3 0.3101462

D1 B2-2268 4 0.2200704

D2 B2-2254 2 0.1772264

D1 B2-2269 3 0.1760563

D2 B2-2255 1 0.1329198

D1 B2-2270 1 0.1320423

D2 B2-2256 0 0.0886132

D2 B2-2257 0 0.0886132

D1 B2-1328 0 0.0880282

D1 B2-95 0 0.0880282

NOTE: The roll numbers and score provided in the above table are only for representational
purpose.

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